Why 2014 Has Been a Big Season for Federer—Despite Going 0-for-the-Majors

Shortly after Roger Federer’s first Wimbledon triumph, a tournament in his native Switzerland presented him with his very own dairy cow. This is how long ago that was: Juliette the cow has been dead at least seven years. (He got the cow in 2003.)

Federer is five months younger than Lleyton Hewitt, who barely cracks tennis’s top 50...